The silver cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current challenger for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the goujon and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish can live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.